Gaining experience in a clinical setting with mentorship is paramount to a Herbal Medicine Clinical Student in training.
Hours and hours are spent by Herbalists in training learning about therapeutics, materia medica, pharmacy, and so much more, this theory so essential to the volumes of knowledge needed to sit with clients and be of service as complementary, holistic health care providers.
Theoretical learning is the basis for what becomes experiential activity. The next step naturally leading to working with people and herbal medicine together, within a professional setting.
Being guided and encouraged by qualified and experienced clinicians brings a solid backbone of practicum mentorship that creates a holistic and well rounded Herbal Medicine Clinician.
It is recommended that the student clinician gain a total of 500 hours of supervised clinical training in addition to 2000 hours of herbal medicine based education experiences. Once met, the student then can register with a provincial association as a Registered Herbal Therapist.
The Holistic Herbalism Advanced Clinical Observation Program is a unique experiential program offering supervised clinical hours for the Student Clinician in training.
Offered once every 2 years this program is instructed and facilitated by Colleen Emery, Cl.H, RHT (BCHA), bringing over 20 years of clinical experience in client centred care models.
Different from our Student Clinic Program, our Observation program offers students who are just beginning their journey with supervised clinical training. A large emphasis in this program is learning the structure and organization of clinic and being an active observant in the clinical process.
PROGRAM DETAILS
This program has a maximum registration of 10 students with 5 seats available onsite.
All classes will be live-streamed and will be interactive with a moderator. Some of the video content will be filmed through a zoom format. A video recording of the class will be provided within 48 hours of the class.
Prerequisites:
- All existing prerequisites to the Holistic Herbalism Advanced Clinical Program.
- Successful completion of the HHA Clinical Program Formulations Homework and Quiz Requirements.
- Completion of all associated waivers and confidentiality agreements on file. (will be provided upon being accepted into program).
- Other Clinical Training experiences can be considered as eligible prerequisites.
Program Dates
Class will meet on scheduled Mondays from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM PST.
2026 Program Dates TBA
Certificate of Completion & Recognition
Students will be eligible to receive a certificate of completion for their portfolio of herbal education upon satisfactory completion of all program requirements.
The program meets a total of 20 classes.
Hour Tally for the Program: 160 hours Supervised Clinical Hours.
Registration Details
Priority seating offered to those who have completed the HHA Clinical Program prerequisites.
Program fees TBA
